Happy Easter, Take Two

Heartwarming, isn’t it? The two children holding hands and whispering to each other. Until you realize that they are whispering, “Let’s fight the evil forces that try to tell us that eating candy is bad for us. Let’s stand together as one army and tell them NO! Our candy consumption will not stop. We will make them crazy. We will cry and scream until midnight each night and then blame them for being tired in the morning. They will not bring us down. They can’t force us to not be gluttons. We will hold our tummies in pain and point to them for making our lives miserable.”

This is why there are never any pictures of me, “Please honey! Quick take a picture of me with the kids.” This is when my children riot against me and cry and throw themselves. Does it really pain them so to be in a picture with me? Am I really that bad of a mom that you can’t PRETEND to be happy for one moment with me? Why do I never get to be in any photos? Why do you guys taunt me like this?

No pictures of them together as it was mass chaos as soon as we arrived to our grandparent’s house. I will relish these pictures as the Easter clothes were ruined swiftly. Emily proceeded to eat jelly beans and drip purple drool down the front of her dress and face. Ethan decided to take fluorescent markers to the sleeve of his sweater. Don’t you know it is my dream to have more clothes to add to the laundry piles? At least we have these sweet moments on camera.

A sweet moment before the purple jelly beans are found. Grandpa stuffed them silly with sugar and waved us off in our car as we took the little sugar fiends home. Isn’t that what grandparents do best? I can’t wait to be a grandma one day and do the same thing!

We enjoyed a delicious meal fixed by grandma for our gang. These beautiful flowers were her centerpiece- a touch of spring for us as we look out the windows at the snow. Spring can’t come soon enough for me!

Happy Easter, Take Two!

Published March 24, 2008 by:

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